Resources for Discerners

Fr. Alan Valencia
Director of Vocations and Seminarians

(520) 838-2531
avalencia@diocesetucson.org

 
Elizabeth Suaso
Administrative Assistant to Vocations

(520) 838-2537
esuaso@diocesetucson.org

Vocations Office
520-838-2531
vocations@diocesetucson.org

✝ Books on Priesthood

• To Save a Thousand Souls - Fr. Brett Brannen
• Priests for the Third Millennium - Archbishop Timothy Dolan
• The Priest is Not His Own - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
• The Joy of Priesthood - Msgr. Steve Rosetti
• Christ: The Ideal of the Priest - Columba Marmion

• Vocation Ministry
• The Way of Discernment - Elizabeth Liebert
• Discernment Do's and Don'ts - Fr. George Elliott
• Religious Order Vocation Match
• A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life - Fr. Benedict Croell and Fr. Andrew Hofer
• Is Jesus Calling You to Be a Catholic Priest? - Fr. Thomas Richter
• Radical Surrender - Fr. Michael Najim

✝ Biographies or Autobiographies of Priests

• The Cure D'Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney - Abbe Francois Trochu
• A Priest Forever - Fr. Benedict Groeschel
• He Leadeth Me - Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.

✝ Books on Celibacy

• The Courage to be Chaste - Fr. Benedict Groeschel
• When God Asks for an Undivided Heart - Fr. Andrew Apostoli
• Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy) - Pope Paul VI

 
✝ Videos and Podcasts

• Melchizedek Project
• acerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy) - Pope Paul

✝ Old Testament

• Genesis 12, 22, 37-50
• Exodus 3
• 1 Sam 3
• 1 Kings 19-21
• Isaiah 6, 42, 43, 45, 49
• Jeremiah 1, 20, 29
• Jonah 1-3

✝ New Testament

• Matthew 4, 9, 16, 17, 20, 26, 28
• Luke 4, 9, 14
• John 1, 2, 10, 15, 19
• Mark 3, 10
• Romans 8
• 1 Corinthians 1
• Galatians 1
• Philippians 3
• 1 Peter 2